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My Budget is $300 U.S. and under. I'm looking at the Tom's Hardware All GPU's Ranked. I can't help but notice that if I want 8GB memory in a GPU, which I was told was the "sweetspot", then I would either have to go way over budget to get a Nvidea GeForce GTX 1080, or get this XFX AMD Radeon RX 590 Fatboy, which would be under my budget and allow me to upgrade my PSU if needed. Is that Radeon RX 590 a good card? Do I need to upgrade my PSU? I want to play games like GTA5 and do some video editing. I shop at newegg, microcenter, and amazon but would buy that GPU at Walmart if you think it's good.

Today we're revisiting the GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see how it stacks up to the newly released RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 Ti, particularly in more recent titles such as Apex Legends, Resident Evil 2 and Far Cry New Dawn. The GTX 980 Ti is now four years old, so you'd expect new GPUs around half the...

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If it's 1080p 60hz then the RX590 will be perfect for you. Your CPU may bottleneck a GTX1080 in certain games. Getting it would not be a perfect answer. You may feel abit underwhelmed by the performance.

Either way, I'd defo think about a new PSU. The RX590 is power hungry, and so is the GTX1080. With your PSU at 4.5 yrs, it's time to consider it. After that, I'd think about a system upgrade, and not put any more money into your current system.

That gives you probably at least five years (Or more) of competent performance for Ultra settings at 1080p, and medium to high (Or even Ultra depending on the demands of the title) for 1440p. It would also give you very decent performance for any GPU acceleration enabled video editing applications. If you could stretch the budget a little more you could fit an RTX 2060 with RT support in there that would even improve things further however the 1660 ti does well enough and is a much better choice than the RX 590.

You might consider a better PSU as well since the XFX TS series you have MIGHT be fairly old. How old it is would be a factor.

Today we're revisiting the GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see how it stacks up to the newly released RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 Ti, particularly in more recent titles such as Apex Legends, Resident Evil 2 and Far Cry New Dawn. The GTX 980 Ti is now four years old, so you'd expect new GPUs around half the...

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Seems to be enough of a FPS advantage in some games to make it worth it to me. At 1080p the Techspot review showed about 10FPS HIGHER 1% minimum frame rates, on average, with the 1% minimums on the 1660 ti hovering just about 60FPS with the highest possible settings, which means the 1660 super had low FPS dips of around five to ten FPS below 60FPS. I'd pay an extra 30 bucks to NOT have that be a potential problem. Certainly the quality settings and CPU play a role in that as well and some amount of it might be able to be mitigated, but if you want 1080p Ultra everything above 60FPS performance with no dips below that, then I'd spend the extra thirty bucks.

Might also want to consider keeping an eye open for a 4790k to slap in there which should give you a nice bump in clock speed if you are not already overclocking AND, maybe more importantly, four extra threads that would undoubtedly make a difference for any of the many games now with fairly good threaded optimizations.

My Budget is $300 U.S. and under. I'm looking at the Tom's Hardware All GPU's Ranked. I can't help but notice that if I want 8GB memory in a GPU, which I was told was the "sweetspot", then I would either have to go way over budget to get a Nvidea GeForce GTX 1080, or get this XFX AMD Radeon RX 590 Fatboy, which would be under my budget and allow me to upgrade my PSU if needed. Is that Radeon RX 590 a good card? Do I need to upgrade my PSU? I want to play games like GTA5 and do some video editing. I shop at newegg, microcenter, and amazon but would buy that GPU at Walmart if you think it's good.

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That depends greatly upon your use case and expectations. What is great for one person, is not acceptable for the next. Especially if they expect to still have similar performance a few years down the road when the demands of games has been moderately increased, which it surely will have been since it always does.

When the time comes that a CPU and platform upgrade become NECESSARY, and I expect that it probably will before too long depending on the games you play and the FPS target, a wise person will have purchased a graphics card that is still going to be capable of supporting the desired quality settings rather than again having to make an expensive hardware upgrade to remain at least reasonably balanced with the new CPU. In this case, they would probably not have to do that for an extended period of time assuming a continued target of 1080p.

That depends greatly upon your use case and expectations. What is great for one person, is not acceptable for the next. Especially if they expect to still have similar performance a few years down the road when the demands of games has been moderately increased, which it surely will have been since it always does.

When the time comes that a CPU and platform upgrade become NECESSARY, and I expect that it probably will before too long depending on the games you play and the FPS target, a wise person will have purchased a graphics card that is still going to be capable of supporting the desired quality settings rather than again having to make an expensive hardware upgrade to remain at least reasonably balanced with the new CPU. In this case, they would probably not have to do that for an extended period of time assuming a continued target of 1080p.

While technically a new GPU, the Radeon RX 590 is in essence the same RX 580 with a 15% overclock. What we have here is Polaris 20 XT on the 12nm FinFET process, allowing for slightly better clock speeds. But what about pricing?

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Basically the 590 is an overclocked 580. The other thing you need to consider, going forward, the i5 will limit you. Quad core cpus with only 4 threads are starting to struggle in some titles. Battlefield 1 for example was one example. I'm sure there are a lot more going forward. So I say upgrade that, sell your i5. Didn't see in the opening post, but if you don't have an SSD, use the funds from your i5 to get an SSD which would help it just to feel faster in day to day use. If you have one already, put the money aside towards a new system fund, or save for a new display.

I know the RX 580 isn't as flashy as the 590, but compared to your 750ti, it will be a HUGE upgrade. I had a Vega 56, but downgraded to an rx 580 since I got a good deal on selling it. And needed to do the responsible thing and pay some bills. But in the process I got a used rx 580 for about 100 dollars.

I did also purchase the new Jedi game with Christmas money. I started playing last night a little, keep in mind as someone who was used to the Vega 56. I play at 1080p though and have a 144hz monitor with freesync. However, I set the graphics to high settings, and it was perfectly fine. No I'm not getting 144 fps. But at good settings, it was playable and I could enjoy the game on it. I've used a 1050ti in the past, which was faster than your current 750ti. Let me tell you, even an rx 570 or 580 from what you have now is going to be a massive upgrade from what you've got now.

If you feel like it, look around in the used market the 580s on what can still be had around 100 dollars if used doesn't scare you, since there are a lot of mining cards being sold these days. But an i7 would max out your current platform, and the newer card would still let you enjoy some nicer visuals. The PSU upgrade is wise for the future, then it and GPU can be carried to a new build later if you wanted.

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To follow up on @ohio_buckeye 's post.... which I pretty much agree with, but, if I were to narrow it down to two choices:

1 - RX 570 in terms of bang for buck. A few times, the 4GB variant has plunged down to $99.99 after rebates. As of today, though, the lowest priced one I've seen is $119.99.
2 - GTX 1650 Super - something on the order of RX 580 to RX 590 performance, and the cheapest 1650 Super is the price of the cheapest RX 580 ($159.99), yet consumes significantly less power. It occasionally flirts with RX 590 level performance, for less money and FAR less power consumption than the 590.

I like and generally prefer AMD, but today, I couldn't consider either the RX 580 or RX 590 given the existence of the GTX 1650 Super.

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Would the i7-4770k be a big improvement over my i5-4690k? Since this was a bit off topic, I started another thread here this morning. One person said it wouldn't make much of a difference, and another person said it would give me 25% more speed.

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If it's a game that can use more than four threads, or if you are doing any multitasking like recording or streaming or browser based activities WHILE gaming, then yes, it will definitely see some improvement. Plus, if you overclock it you will obviously gain some additional single core and overall performance. You could take any of the 4th or 5th gen CPUs to around 4.5Ghz easily without even having a high end board so long as you have sufficient cooling. That extra 500mhz will make a difference as well PLUS if you factor in also having four additional hyperthreads, then for the price it might be worthwhile.

Truthfully, if it were me, unless there is NO way you could manage to scrape together the rest of the money you'd need to do it over the next few months, it is money that would be better spent being saved towards a platform upgrade that would give you MUCH better performance, like this.

But if that isn't an option for the near to mid term future then upgrading to one of the 4th or 5th gen i7's is your only other real alternative. Or, you could keep your i5 and OC the shiznit out of it. Might help some.

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